Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank said the erosion of prejudice is "suggested by the old phrase, 'some of my best friends are Blacks, or Jews, or whatever.' A true bigot doesn't make exceptions. It is a stage in the erosion of prejudice when people say, 'I don't like them in general, but I have some friends like that...
...organizations ranging from the Communist Party to the Society of Stamp Collectors. They will select 544 of their number for a new Supreme Soviet. This new legislature, of which Gorbachev is expected to be president, will jostle for authority with the Communist Party's hierarchy, of which Gorbachev is General Secretary. He may thus be able (if his footwork remains agile) to use the new Supreme Soviet to outmaneuver the conservatives in the Communist Party's apparatus and to use the party's Politburo to keep a lid on the insurgents in the Supreme Soviet...
...public diplomacy. As the U.S.'s man in China, Bush had a crash course in Communism and geopolitics. As director of Central Intelligence, he learned what KGB networks and Soviet missile warheads could do to the West on a bad day. As Vice President, he met as many General Secretaries as he helped bury (three...
...general the response has been remarkablysupportive," Shaffner said. "I've had very fewnegative reactions to this thing...
...much of this medical waste really needs tobe disposed of in this expensive way? How much ofhospital waste could really do any harm?" saidMartin S. Bander of Massachusetts General, one ofHarvard's main teaching hospitals. "The samestandards should be applied to all sources of allmedical waste, such as doctor's offices andsurgery centers, which are not now required topack it in the same safe manner as hospitals...